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What is the difference between arabic and farsi?

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arabic

English

(wikipedia Arabic)

Alternative forms

* Arabick (obsolete)

Adjective

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  • Related to the .
  • *
    • One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic' country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an ' Arab country!"
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
  • *
    • White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon''" and "''Lebs rule ".

    Usage notes

    * The adjective (term) is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as (Arabic numeral) or (gum arabic). Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective (Arab) is preferred.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
  • The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.

    • Derived terms

    * Arabic numeral * Arabic script * Arabic scale * Hispano-Arabic * Mozarabic

    See also

    (wikibooks Arabic) * (ar) * Language list * * (Arabic language) * * Arab * Arabian

    External links

    * It's a family or related languages. The individual ones are: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (websters-online)

    farsi

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Parsee * Parsi

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (proscribed) The standard Persian language; national language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
  • * 1820 , William Erskine, "On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis", Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay , volume II, page 315
    • That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain.
  • * 1991 , Richard Felix Staar, Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union , page 91
    • In July 1984, Radio Iran Toilers began broadcasting in Farsi from Afghanistan; by the end of 1988 it was transmitting twenty-one hours a week.
  • * 1999 , Maria O'Shea, Culture shock! Iran , page 75
    • The method of writing Farsi is logical, although reading can be trickier, as one has to guess at the unwritten consonants of unfamiliar words.
  • * 2001 , Dan Baumann, Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear , page 20
    • We chatted away in Farsi .
  • * 2009', Vit Bubenik, "The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian", page 97 in ''Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages'', ''Current Issues in Linguistic Theory'' ' 305
    • For instance, in Farsi pošt'' means 'back' (noun) as in ''pošt=am dard mikonad 'my back hurts'

    Usage notes

    * Popular use of the term Farsi'' in English is very recent; ''Persian is the older name of the language in English. * Iran's believes that Farsi'' is not an appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English. Some groups hotly debate the use of ''Farsi at all as an English word.'>citation * ISO formerly called the language "Western Farsi", but now designates it as "Iranian Persian". Ethnologue calls the language "Western Farsi", but also gives the synonyms of Persian and New Persian.

    Synonyms

    * (language) Dari, Persian, Tajiki

    See also

    * Iran * Iranian * Persia * Persian *

    References

    External links

    * Farsi English Dictionary * Persian-English Dictionary *

    Anagrams

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